Neighborhood-turned-island served chicken with a side of hope

The devastating impact of Hurricane Harvey has been matched by overwhelming compassion by total strangers.

Author:
Boyd Huppert , KHOU

Published:09/01/17

On Telephone Road the great divide is ground clearance. The people getting off their neighborhood-turned-island have it. James Brown and his wife Adrienne Carter do not.

“My Lincoln sits low to the ground,” says Brown, as he watches a steady stream of four-wheel-drive pickups and SUVs get back on the road.

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As the water recedes, both Brown and Carter are anxious to get back to their jobs, but ground clearance – and the two feet of water remaining on Telephone Road – kept them anchored Thursday to their Southeast Houston neighborhood.

Then ground clearance came to them.

“Want some chicken ma’am?,” shouts refinery worker Steven Clark as he serves fried chicken and sides to Telephone Road’s island people from the bed of his Ford pickup.